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NCAA Coaches Get Initial OK For $49M Wage-Fix Deal

A California federal judge granted preliminary approval Wednesday to a group of roughly 1,000 Division I volunteer baseball coaches for their settlement under which the NCAA would pay $49.5 million to resolve their proposed antitrust class action challenging a since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw.

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Nixed Order Stirs Confusion Amid Feds' Workforce Data Push

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's efforts to proceed with its annual workplace demographic data collection after President Donald Trump rescinded a key piece of legal authority has experts unsure if small federal contractors are still required to comply. 

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4th Circ. Skips To Full Review Of DOGE's SSA Access

The Fourth Circuit has voted to initially hear as a full court the government's challenge to an order blocking a probe of the Social Security Administration and keep the block in place, with a majority differentiating a similar case it recently left to a three-member panel sans injunction.

Expert Analysis

Maximizing Employer Defenses After Calif. Meal Waiver Ruling

Aaron Cargain, Lauren Roseman and Spencer Waldron

A California state appeals court's recent decision in Bradsbery v. Vicar Operating, finding that revocable meal pe... (more story)

Independent Contractor Rule Up In The Air Under New DOL

Justin Barnes and Jeffrey Brecher

In several recent court challenges, the U.S. Department of Labor has indicated its intent to revoke the 2024 indep... (more story)

Employer Tips For Navigating Cultural Flashpoints Litigation

Dawn Solowey, Sam Schwartz-Fenwick and Emily Miller

A New York federal court's recent refusal to fully dismiss claims that Cooper Union failed to address antisemitism... (more story)

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Union Says Wilcox Ruling Invalidates Amazon Injunction Bid

Amazon's Constitution-based bid to block a National Labor Relations Board case cannot stand now that the company's argument has been rejected in Washington, D.C., federal court, a Teamsters unit told a Califor... (more story)

Software Co. Fights NLRB's Order In Firing Case At DC Circ.

A Vermont software company is fighting the National Labor Relations Board's finding that it violated federal labor law by firing four workers after a salary spreadsheet circulated at the company, telling the D... (more story)

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Acting NLRB GC Pushes For Drop Of 3 Precedent Fights

A National Labor Relations Board attorney dropped a trio of requests to overturn board precedents about workplace rules and proof of anti-union bias, saying the move to withdraw these efforts stems from the ac... (more story)

9th Circ. Must Not Rethink Macy's Order, NLRB Says

The National Labor Relations Board urged the Ninth Circuit not to reconsider its enforcement of a board decision requiring Macy's to pay locked out workers for "direct or foreseeable" harms, arguing the NLRB h... (more story)

Local Gov'ts, Union Seek Block Of COVID Grant Cancellations

Three cities, a county and a public employees' union asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge Wednesday to block the government from rescinding $11 billion in public health grants doled out through pandemic-era... (more story)

AFL-CIO Backs NLRB In Diner's Challenge To In-House Court

The AFL-CIO has thrown its weight behind the National Labor Relations Board in the agency's opposition to a constitutional challenge filed by a Texas diner, telling the Fifth Circuit that the diner's "radical ... (more story)

DOL, HHS Seek Nix Of Bid To Halt DOGE's Access To Systems

The U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services challenged a bid to halt agencies from giving Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive systems, tell... (more story)

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Judge Won't Ax Anti-DEI Injunction For Plaintiffs' Tweaks

A Maryland federal judge Thursday declined to upend his preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing the bulk of the president's executive orders aiming to slash diversity, equity ... (more story)

Planned Parenthood Slams HHS 'Attacks' On Teen Program

Planned Parenthood on Thursday pressed a D.C. federal court to block the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' "attacks" on a long-running, successful public health initiative aimed at preventing teen ... (more story)

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EEOC Blasts 'Intentional' Med Record Mishandling In ADA Suit

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Thursday urged a Colorado federal court to sanction an appliance retailer that filed a former employee's unredacted medical records in a disability bias laws... (more story)

Troops Urge High Court To Keep Transgender Ban On Ice

Several transgender service members and recruits told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's bid to lift a federal judge's order prohibiting implementation of the Pentagon's ba... (more story)

3rd Circ. Backs Charter School In Black Worker's Bias Suit

The Third Circuit upheld the dismissal of a Black cafeteria manager's suit claiming she was fired for complaining that her bosses at a charter school system mistreated her due to her race, ruling the suit fall... (more story)

5th Circ. Says Ex-LSU Researcher Can't Reopen Bias Case

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday upheld Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center's defeat of a lawsuit from a Black former program manager who claimed she was terminated because of her race, saying a tri... (more story)

Norfolk Southern's Promotion Process Is Biased, Workers Say

Norfolk Southern Corp. has been sued in Georgia federal court by two longtime billing clerks who allege the company's promotion process is riddled with race and age bias and that its customer service division ... (more story)

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Worker Can't Ring Own Class's 'Death Knell,' Calif. Panel Says

A former construction company employee can't appeal an order denying his class certification motion in a putative wage and hour class action, a California state appeals court has ruled, finding it does not qua... (more story)

NYU Langone Fights Conditional Cert. Bid In OT Suit

NYU Langone told a New York federal court Wednesday that a group of IT workers were too vague in their arguments to support a collective certification bid in their suit accusing the medical center of misclassi... (more story)

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Flowers Foods Says Distributors Worked For Themselves

Flowers Foods and two other entities urged a Massachusetts federal court Thursday to toss a suit by two food distributors accusing the companies of misclassifying them as independent contractors, saying the di... (more story)

Truckers Win $10M In Row Over Pay For Cross-Border Freight

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday awarded $10.4 million to a class of truckers who sued RSP Express Inc. alleging the company and its owners skimmed off the top of their contracts, shorting drivers for fre... (more story)

Hospital, Worker End Unpaid Meal Break Suit

A healthcare system will no longer face a proposed collective action accusing it of deducting 30 minutes per day from workers' wages for meal breaks despite workers not getting a chance to take uninterrupted m... (more story)

Landscaping Co. Must Face Trial In Unpaid OT Suit

A jury should determine whether landscape workers are owed overtime wages or if they fall under an exemption from the premium pay, a Kansas federal judge ruled while finding the H-2B visa applications their em... (more story)

Atlanta Home Health Service Faces Overtime Class Action

An Atlanta home healthcare service was hit with a proposed class action Wednesday over allegations it failed to pay certified nursing assistants proper overtime compensation.